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India to impose controversial fee for UPI instant payments: Who benefits?

It's the end of an era for India's popular instant digital payments system, which has been free of charge until now. Grouped from 2 articles across 2 sources.

2 reports2 sourcesSep 17, 2026, 11:18 AM
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Al JazeeraSep 17, 2026, 11:18 AM

India to impose controversial fee for UPI instant payments: Who benefits?

It's the end of an era for India's popular instant digital payments system, which has been free of charge until now.

CNBCSep 17, 2026, 5:10 AM

Inside India newsletter: The world’s largest real-time payments system will no longer be free for all

India's digital payment system, which processes more than 1 million transactions every two minutes for free now, will start charging fees to merchants.

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